Vier Schöne neue Lieder
A small 1747 German songsheet booklet titled Vier Schöne neue Lieder, written by Christoph Friedrich Wedekind, with its publisher unidentified and likely printed for popular street or household singing. Its title page is set in dense black letter type with a single framed woodcut vignette of a rural landscape with a hill, trees and a figure at the bottom. A designer could take the crowded, centred typographic hierarchy and the small pastoral woodcut as a model for compact vintage title pages.
